[TriLUG] Linux desktop suggestions

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I also forgot to mention, Dolphin (The file manager used in the Plasma desktop 
environment) has support for ownCloud/nextcloud and will show you the status 
of files shared using the software.

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John M. Harris, Jr. <johnmh at openblox.org>
Project Lead, OpenBlox
https://openblox.org/

On Monday, May 22, 2017 12:08:24 PM EDT mail via TriLUG wrote:
> Of course, this is my personal preference, but he’s my suggestion, in
> original order.
> 
> I would suggest the use of KDE Plasma, either Fedora or openSUSE. I
> personally use Fedora with Linux-libre, but I wouldn’t suggest that
> especially on a Dell laptop.
> 
> Workflow replacements:
> * Virtualization: VMWare Fusion will run on Fedora, if I recall correctly.
> If you don’t specifically want VMWare, I would suggest qemu or even
> VirtualBox, as they’re much more friendly.
> 
> * Terminal: Konsole is an excellent and highly configurable terminal
> emulator. I use it on a daily basis, and I use the fish shell.
> 
> Screenshot:
> 
> 
> * Screen capture: Plasma comes with a screenshot tool called Spectacle that
> supports the following capture modes:
> Rectangular region
> Full Screen (All Monitors)
> Active Window
> Window under Cursor
> Current Screen
> 
> When you select Active Window or Window under Cursor, it hooks into the
> compositor to give you a screenshot of that window alone, optionally with
> the affects applied to it by the compositor, with or without borders, and
> with or without the cursor, among other options.
> 
> Screenshot:
> https://www.kde.org/images/screenshots/resized/spectacle.png
> 
> * Email: I use KMail, which is part of KDE Plasma. KMail has excellent
> support for multiple addresses, OpenPGP, mailing lists, client-side
> anti-spam using the users’ choice of scripts, as well as managesieve
> support. I use it on all of my computers, because it is very robust. It can
> easily handle thousands of emails, as shown in the screenshot linked below.
> 
> Screenshot:
> https://openblox.org/~johnmh/i/nobhZaYP6c.png
> 
> * Web browsing: I suggest Mozilla Firefox, but if you prefer Google Chrome,
> you can easily install it in Fedora. Some people, especially among the KDE
> crowd, complain that Firefox doesn’t fit the desktop environment, but you
> can decide for yourself. Firefox uses GTK+ themes, so if you do use KDE
> Plasma + Firefox, you’ll want to install a matching GTK+ theme. In Fedora,
> that’d be found in the breeze-gtk package, if you want to match one of the
> default themes.
> 
> Screenshot:
> https://openblox.org/~johnmh/i/YI94WlTpnx.png
> 
> * Window resizing using Ctrl + Mouse Button: You can have exactly that with
> KDE. I use this myself, though I use Meta (Super key/Windows key/whatever
> you call it) + mouse button.
> 
> Screenshot:
> https://openblox.org/~johnmh/i/nvzO52KycS.png
> 
> * Nextcloud: Fedora has both Nextcloud and ownCloud in their repos, and you
> can easily install either on most distros.
> 
> > Greetings all,
> > 
> > Looks like my Mac laptop will be “exchanged” for a Dell laptop at @dayjob,
> > and I need to find a good Linux desktop environment to run (def not going
> > to run windows natively).  I have been using a Mac for so long I don’t
> > even
> > know where to begin with the current Linux desktops.
> > 
> > My day-to-day workflow includes:
> >  * VMWare Fusion (run Win7 for @dayjob stuff)
> >  * Lots of terminal work (love iTerm2 for the Mac)
> >  * Screen-capture tool (Snap-n-drag)
> >  * EMail client (Mac mail)
> >  * Web browsing (Chrome/Opera)
> >  * Flexiglass (easily resize windows via CTRL+<mouse_button>)
> >  * Nextcloud (file sharing)
> > 
> > A couple of things I like about the mac are the ability to hit CTRL+SPACE
> > to bring up a quick launch manager (spotlight) and the ability to quickly
> > preview jpgs via the <space> bar in the finder app.
> > 
> > I am hoping someone on the alias has gone through a Mac-to-Linux desktop
> > shift and could offer some suggestions.  So far, I have looked at
> > elementary OS, Mint, Gnome (via Ubuntu 16.04), and a few others.  While
> > none can replicate the Mac experience, I am looking for something as
> > similar as possible.
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> > -Ron